U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander’s campaign bus stopped in Kingston Wednesday, but he wasn’t on it.

According to his “Little Plaid Blog” detailing his campaign stops, Alexander had to return to Washington, D.C., to vote against President Barack Obama’s funding request for the immigration crisis on the Mexico border.

“He still has not proposed a serious plan to secure the border and deal with the influx of unaccompanied minors entering our country,” Alexander said in a prepared statement.

Dear Bill — Under normal circumstances, we would address you with all the usual honoraria of the office which you hold, however, inasmuch as the entire thrust of this epistle is to address you as a man, a child of God, one who was as all men are, in the immortal words of Mr. Jefferson, “created equal”, we address you as just plain Bill.